Summary
IS STEWART Laing monkeying around? Two of Scotland's most important theatre venues, the Tramway and the Traverse, have entrusted the director with their biggest performance spaces. There's much excitement about what he'll do. And what has he filled these big spaces with? A lawn. That's it. It's not even a very nice lawn; it's a cheap-looking plastic thing with a few plastic chairs on it.
Let's not worry yet though. Instead, let's go back to 2006, when Laing and playwright Pamela Carter put on a show at Tramway called Slope. Given the venue's hangar-like main exhibition space to play with, Laing built... a big slope. And a small bathroom. And only let 30 audience members in each night.See the full content of this document
Extract
Sex and the City... In Garden of Eden
It seemed, as the Scotsman's theatre critic noted, "like a hugely overblown project, a theatrical fantasy that ought not to work". But it did. Laing and Carter delivered a marvel, intimate but epic. Perch...
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